At Alias Books East, in Atwater Village, hangs an unfinished piece of sky. The artist and musician Matt Fishbeck made it by scrabbling a piece of denim-colored stick of oil pastel onto a board. The painting hovers on Alias Books East’s west-facing “art wall” next to...
Lightning, volcanoes, geysers and ice floes possess hellish glory whose terror is facilely reduced to quaintness. Depicting these comely but deadly natural forces, Kelly Berg's artworks illustrate humans' relationship to the earth's crust as a labyrinthine blend of...
May marks half a century since the student and worker protests against rising unemployment and poverty under Charles de Gaulle’s conservative government in France. In May 1968, students and faculty at the L’ecole des Beaux-Arts took over the lithography studio and...
Laurie Anderson strolled onstage in a flowing orange cloak over black jacket and skinny pants—perhaps a character out of Harry Potter? “I’m sorry I’m wearing my bathrobe,” the multi-media artist quickly apologized as she sat down. “I caught the flu, and I’m still...
Fay Ray often says her work is about the construction of identity, which is something a lot of artists say. But in “I AM THE HOUSE” Ray takes that premise in sublime new directions, in a series of sculptures and photo-based works that through formal materials, actions...
As 356 Mission prepares to shutter, two unorthodox shows whet regulars' regret for the singular gallery's imminent finis. Closing April 22, Charlemagne Palestine's plush extravaganza is apposite to new artist Alake Shilling's outlandish show that will remain through...
Alison Saar’s “Topsy Turvy,” her new exhibition at LA Louver, looks to the sixties for strength: the 1860s. Painted on linen and canvas, carved in wood, and shaped from tin, Topsy the slave girl from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Civil War era novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin looks...
Walking around the gallery it was impossible to escape a slightly ‘déjà vu all over again’ sort of feeling. No sooner had you passed a portrait in the new exhibition by David Hockney, then the same person would be passing by in the flesh—often attired in exactly the...
"Lorser Feitelson: Figure to Form" at Louis Stern Fine Arts is a small but insightful survey of the noted painter's transition from Post-Surrealism to Hard-Edge Abstraction. Including nine paintings Feitelson (1888-1978) completed between 1945 and 1962, this show...
Matthew Sweesy’s “Nocturnes” and Jesse Edwards’ “Hot Town,” currently at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, are exercises in nostalgia. The two artists, while working in different mediums and styles, have a strikingly optimistic quality. Whether it’s the pop culture references...
It was a celebratory evening at the Underground Museum benefit auction, My Kid Could Do That, on Friday evening. The benefit was in support of ProjectArt’s mission for arts education for children…and we all know how important that is for human beings, and society in...
Ben Sanders envisions paintings and completes drawings while sitting in church. It sounds as though the pictures yielded by this arrangement would be moralistic, maudlin or mocking; but instead, he transfigures personal and religious narratives into open-ended...
In the dystopian future of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation Isle of Dogs, Megasaki City is gripped with the panic over the contagious dog flu. The nefarious Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura) exiles all dogs to Trash Island, a place piled with the detritus...
Kerry Tribe’s film Standardized Patient, which was commissioned by SFMoMA in 2017 and is currently at 1301PE, is a filmic expression of thoughtful storytelling centered on a controlled social environment that is often unexplored within the wooly conceptual arts—the...
Even before pie charts and bar graphs, before we’re plotting curves and breaking down conic sections in algebra and analytic geometry, we become accustomed to the graphic visual representation of every kind of trend, concept, and systematized data or information. It...
From the Valley to the Beach to Downtown LA, a wide range of entertaining art exhibitions opened this past weekend. At the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, artist Jodi Bonassi launched her retrospective, "PUBLIC SETTINGS… Private Conversations." Showing a collection...
Alison Petty Ragguette's sculptures voluptuously incarnate equivocal tensions between nature and artifice. Evincing Ragguette's versatility in ceramics and sculpture, "Visceral Bandwidths" at Launch LA debuts her new "Melanin" series alongside examples from recent...
The sweep and scope of the Laguna Art Museum’s extensive Tony DeLap retrospective encompass several remarkable elements, including the artist’s large hybrid constructions, which feature unusual juxtapositions of shapes and materials, and his curved standing and...
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